Job Expo Helps Pair Vets With Employers

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Job Expo Helps Pair Vets With Employers

11/04/2011 05:19 PM

<font size="3">ROCHESTER, NY -<font color="#000000"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal"> The unemployment rate for veterans is three times the rate of civilians. Wednesday's job fair tried to help local vets get back to work.</span></span></font></font>

ROCHESTER, NY - The unemployment rate for veterans is three times the rate of civilians. Wednesday's job fair tried to help our local vets get back to work.

The 11th annual National Veterans Job Expo brought in about 1,000 veterans searching for work. There were more than 100 employers ready to hire on-site.

The expo offered vets a chance to mingle with prospective employers and hand out their resumes.

"So, we can get them back in the workforce," Bruce Bradley with C.O.P. Securities said. "A lot of them left their work to go overseas they come back with no job, some of them come back with hard times."